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Propagation of elliptically polarized light pulses in a medium of two-level atoms with degenerate energy levels under coherent population trapping has been studied within the density-matrix formalism and reduced Maxwell’s equation. It has been shown that ellipticity pulses and the orientation angle of the polarization ellipse move with a deceleration. The analytical expression for the group velocity of an arbitrary J → J dark transition (J is an integer) has been derived. In addition, a previously unknown effect of forced phase modulation under the variation of the spatial orientation of the polarization ellipse has been discovered. This phase modulation includes a pilot pulse passing through the medium at the speed of light in vacuum and a slow pulse moving synchronously with the pulse of the orientation angle.
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Original Russian Text © M.Yu. Basalaev, D.V. Brazhnikov, A.S. Zibrov, A.V. Taichenachev, A.M. Tumaikin, V.I. Yudin, 2012, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2012, Vol. 95, No. 9, pp. 504–508.
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Basalaev, M.Y., Brazhnikov, D.V., Zibrov, A.S. et al. Generation of a pilot phase pulse during the propagation of slow elliptically polarized pulses in a medium under coherent population trapping. Jetp Lett. 95, 444–448 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364012090032
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